Anaconda's installation screen for Fedora 15 |
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| Developer(s) | Anaconda Team |
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| Written in | Python and C |
| Operating system | Linux |
| Type | Installer |
| License | GPL (Free software) |
| Website | fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda |
Anaconda is the installer for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora.
Anacondas are lizard-eating snakes (similar to pythons), and the Caldera installation program was called “Lizard”, hence the name.
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Anaconda offers a text-mode and GUI mode, so users can install on a wide range of systems. It is designed to be easily portable and supports a wide range of hardware platforms (IA-32, Itanium, DEC Alpha, IBM ESA/390, PowerPC). It supports installing from local storage devices like CD-ROM drives and harddisks as well as from network resources via FTP, HTTP, or NFS. Installations can be automated with the use of a kickstart file, that automatically configures the installation, allowing users to run it with minimal supervision.
It is mainly written in Python with some modules written in C. It has a graphical frontend that is based on PyGTK and designed with the Glade Interface Designer as well as a text frontend using newt.
It is available as Free software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Anaconda installer is used by RHEL, Fedora and a number of other projects.[1]